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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 341, NWS Lincoln, IL

August 11, 2026Marshall County, Illinois

NWS Lincoln, IL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 2026, 9:44 AM CDT for Marshall County, Illinois. It was in force for 46 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 11, 2026, 9:44 AM CDT (14:44 UTC)
Expired: Aug 11, 2026, 10:30 AM CDT
In force: 46 min
Issued by: NWS Lincoln, IL
Area: Storm-based polygon
Damage threat: Considerable
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

County Marshall County, IL

The radar

The Lincoln radar (KILX), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 11, 7:22 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Davenport, (KDVN), launched 12:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 116 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 4268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 2.1
Supercell composite: 9.5

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Lincoln, IL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 11, 5:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 5:42 AM CDT, 4 hours 2 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Lincoln, IL issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 11, 1:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Vermilion	63 min
Aug 11, 2:50 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	DeWitt, McLean, Piatt	40 min
Aug 11, 3:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threat	ILX	Champaign, Piatt	43 min
Aug 11, 3:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Piatt	50 min
Aug 11, 3:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Champaign, Douglas, Edgar, Vermilion	53 min
Aug 11, 4:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark, Edgar	38 min
Aug 11, 5:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ILX	Clark	45 min

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.